SAHO global search

Aubrey Mokoena

… He was later elected chairman of the local South African Student’s Association (SASO) , and was thus part of the SASO … protest and the university reacted by…

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1917-1993

Oliver Tambo

… Head Prefect at school but declined in favour of another student. Instead, he took up the position of Deputy Head … Lembede , Jordan Ngubane and Nelson…

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1876-1958

Mabel Palmer

Dr Mabel Palmer (nee Mabel Atkinson) was born on 22 May 1876 near Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and…

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1908-1982

Ellen Phyllis Hellman

… attended the University of the Witwatersrand where, as a student of social anthropology, she came into contact with … one of South Africa's major…

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1934-2004

Dullah Mohamed Omar

… at the University of Cape Town for a BA LLB degree. As a student he joined the Unity Movement and became involved in student protest activity on campus. In…

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1955

Laura Jean Levetan

… She then spent a year in the United States as an exchange student and returned to South Africa in 1975 to commence a … of Students for Social Democracy (SSD)…

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1956

Jack John Masinga

… John Jack Masinga was a student at Duduza Sibonelo Secondary school when the 1976 … started. Masinga, Felix Mpeka and Duncan Mahlangu formed a student…

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1947

Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer

… and LLB degrees at the University of the Free State. As a student, he became active in politics. Meyer practiced as an …

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1935-2008

Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)

… to erect a shack. In 1976, her son  Tsietsi  led the student  uprising in Soweto . The riots were about the use of …

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1932

Nkosinathi Benson Fihla

… education course but was expelled for taking part in a student strike over food. As an outstanding athlete, he later …

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1957-1985

Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane

… Soweto.  Molokoane became politically active during the student uprising of 1976, and like many of his contemporaries …

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1931-2015

Dr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena

… actively with the Pretoria branch of the South African Student’s Association (SASO). In 1976, Dr Mangena was …

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1929-1994

Ruth Gosschalk

… subsequent to that she met Bernard Gosschalk, who was a student of architecture in London. With Bernard, Mary Turok …

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1918-2011

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

… South African Nursing Council demanded that all nurses and student nurses supply their identity numbers to the council. … Albertina was banned from attending…

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1943

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin

… school at Inanda Seminary, where she was involved in student resistance politics. ANC stalwarts Barbara Masekela … formed in the late 1960s with the aim of…

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Sibongile Susan Mkhabela

… led her to become politically active while she was still a student at Naledi High School, becoming an executive member … was eighteen about to turn nineteen)…

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1949-1985

Sicelo Mhlauli

… arrested and detained him in Zwelitsha during the student strikes. The constant harassment by the Ciskei … elsewhere. Mhlauli found work at Atchivelile…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… could continue with their schooling. In 1973 Ben, then a student at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape … him to the Security Police at the time…

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1920-2003

Rev. Theo Kotze

… the expulsion of Abram Onkgopotse Tiro and the entire Student Representative Council, of the University of the … at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. In…

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1945-2025

David Hemson

… activist began. David Hemson was actively involved in student politics in the 1960s and served as Vice President … Relations) NUSAS. He was an editor for…

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1957-2010

Molefi Paul Sefularo

… Cape Town. Dr Sefularo began his political activism in the student movement. He was a founder member of the Azanian … in 1981. That same year he also became…

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1957

Thabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla

… South Africa, on 18 May 1957. He joined the South African Student Movement (SASM), as a high school student in 1974. Makwetla fled South Africa in the middle…

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1903-1966

Edward “Eddie” Roux

… and a convert to socialism, and Roux, while still a student, helped found the Young Communist League in 1921. In …

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1938

Enos Molapo Makhubedu

… to attend fortnightly lessons with Johann du Preez, an art student at the University of Pretoria. Makhubedu gained …

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1863-1928

Edward Clark Churchill Mace

… in "grip", news reports reflected kindly on him as "a rare student of nature in her softer moods" (The Cape Argus …

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1903-1979

Johannes (Jan) de Klerk

… and Higher Education Diploma. He was actively involved in student politics. From 1925 to 1926 De Klerk was chairman of …

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1944

Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi

… that year, only to see himself expelled for leading a student sit-in. It eventually became impossible for him to …

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1954

Vice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu

… Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) in 1975. A student leader in 1976, he left South Africa on 14 August …

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1926-2017

Helen Kies

… its counter-attack efforts through powerful Parent-Teacher-Student organisations and the efforts of the Educational …

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